Great is the importance of Christ’s death We must all see, on a moment’s reflection, that without a real death there could be no real sacrifice; that without a real death there could be no real resurrection; and that without a real death and real resurrection, […]
Christ was in the greatest degree of His humiliation in His dying on the cross, and yet by that, above all other things, His divine glory appears. Christ’s humiliation was great, in being born in such a low condition, of a poor virgin, and in a […]
“A giant striking with a straw cannot put forth his strength with it. So in blessing, no creature nor ordinance can convey all the goodness of God to us.” —Thomas Manton The best preacher is no better than a straw, in and of himself. God shows […]
It is a most lamentable thing to see how most men do spend their care, their time, their pains, for known vanities, while God and glory are cast aside That He who is all should seem to them as nothing, and that which is nothing should […]
He who dares to deny God with his lips, sets up something or other as a god in his heart Is it not lamentable that the sacred truth of God, consented to by all nations, which is the band of civil societies, the source of all […]